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Business Process Modeling

Activity Sheet - Session – 3 Creating a Signavio Account

March 2019

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Activity – Creating a Signavio Account

To access Signavio you first need to register an account via the Academic Initiative. The registration is free for students and academic staff, but there are some restrictions. Please be aware of your responsibilities.

It is best to use the Chrome Browser or Safari on OSX to use the drawing tools in Signavio.

You will need to use your student email account (VIT email) to register: type the following link into your browser

https://academic.signavio.com/p/register

and fill out the form displayed. You will need to agree to the terms and conditions and use the

Captcha service

After registering an account, you may be asked to confirm this by an email sent to the email address

you used to register your account with. Click on the link sent in an email if required and then type the

following link into your browser

https://academic.signavio.com/p/login

You will see a web page load with the following login form :

Fill in the login form and click ‘Login’ to connect to the Signavio process editor.

After logon, you should see the Signavio Explorer. Take a quick look at each pull down menu. Under

the ‘Setup’ menu select ‘My Profile’. Enter any missing information and save.

https://academic.signavio.com/p/register

https://academic.signavio.com/p/login

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Note: Some of the steps in the following exercise may be slightly different than shown below. You

will need to reflect on what you are trying to accomplish with each step and take appropriate action.

There are a number of getting started tools and videos which can

be found by clicking the drop-down help-menu item on the top

left of the browser window. See the image to the left.

You can also go directly to many video presentations on aspects

of Signavio using the link:

https://www.signavio.com/video/featured-videos/

There is also a user guide in the menu to the left. You should

explore some of these. There are no Signavio videos on creating

EPC diagrams, and these are mentioned briefly in the User Guide

https://docs.signavio.com/userguide/editor/en/SignavioUserManual.pdf

However you should explore the user guide to get a feel for the

product.

Creating a new Model

We will use one of the EPC diagrams in the supplementary notes material to create a new Signavio

EPC model. Use the following one ….

https://www.signavio.com/video/featured-videos/

https://docs.signavio.com/userguide/editor/en/SignavioUserManual.pdf

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From the drop down new menu …. Select “Event Driven Process

Chain EPC”

Note that there are many types of models.

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Note the new tab which is

opened for the new model

Find the purpose of each

icon in the toolbar

change the pull-down

repository to “EPC

Complete”

Observe the different

modeling shapes

Click the Save icon to save your diagram

Give the model a name

Choose a location (or default to shared

documents)

Write a description

Drawing Canvas

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Drag an event shape onto the drawing canvas and name the event

“Paint Required”

Click on the green shape

and drag it below the event to

create a process (function) connected to the event

Give the process a name (“Determine Color”)

Then click on the Dictionary icon to create an entry in the dictionary

Find out the purpose is of all the icons surrounding the process

Finish the EPC diagram so it resembles the one shown on Page 4.

Your diagram should look like the following

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Use the Syntax checking option to check the syntax of your diagram

If your diagram looks like the one above, there will be no errors, however if you have put something

together incorrectly, then errors will be detected as in the diagram below.

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You should try and introduce a problem into your diagram, check the syntax and see the result.

Make use of this facility when you are putting your assignment diagrams together.

Don’t forget to save you file before exiting… and log out of Signavio correctly.

If you forget your password, we cannot help you. Write it down somewhere.